Born and raised in Sweden, Linda Olsson was educated at the University of Auckland and Victoria University in New Zealand, and received her Bachelor of Law from Stockholm University. She divides her time between Stockholm and Auckland, New Zealand.

ASTRID & VERONIKA, a beautifully crafted story of two women and the unlikely friendship that develops between them, is her first novel. SONATA FOR MIRIAM is her second, a heart-wrenching journey of a man coming to terms with the death of his only child (Penguin, February 2009).